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OUR SERVICES

Family Therapy

Montréal • Québec • Ontario • Online

Family Life

can be loving, meaningful, and deeply stressful all at once. When conflict, distance, parenting challenges, or major life changes begin to strain relationships, family therapy offers a space to reconnect and move forward together. At Clinique Altera, we provide warm, evidence-based family therapy that helps families improve communication, navigate tension, strengthen boundaries, and better understand one another. Whether your family is facing adolescence, separation, blended family dynamics, grief, mental health concerns, or ongoing conflict, we help create healthier patterns rooted in empathy, clarity, and connection.

Family therapy can help with:

ADHD & Neurodiversity

Support for families navigating ADHD, autism, sensory needs, executive functioning differences, and building systems that honour each person’s strengths.
LGBTQ+

Affirming family therapy that supports identity, coming out, transitions, communication, and strengthening relationships within LGBTQ+ families.
Grief

Compassionate support for families coping with loss, bereavement, illness, or major life changes that impact the household.
Separation and Divorce

Guidance through divorce, separation, blended family transitions, co-parenting stress, and creating stability for children.
Parental Alienation

Support for high-conflict family systems affected by loyalty binds, estrangement, and rebuilding healthier parent-child relationships where possible.
Boundaries

Help creating healthier limits, respectful communication, generational boundaries, and more balanced family roles.
Communication Breakdown

Support for recurring misunderstandings, conflict cycles, shutdowns, yelling, or difficulty feeling heard at home.
No Contact

Support for families navigating estrangement, reconciliation decisions, emotional safety, and healing from difficult relational dynamics.
Teen & Adolescent Challenges

Help navigating behavioural changes, school refusal, emotional struggles, identity development, and parent-teen conflict.
Blended Families

Support for step-parenting, loyalty conflicts, household transitions, and building connections in new family structures.
Trauma & Family Stress

When trauma, violence, addiction, illness, or chronic stress has impacted trust, safety, or connection.
Parenting Support

Guidance for discipline, co-regulation, consistency, emotional development, and navigating difficult parenting seasons.
Sibling Conflict

Help reducing rivalry, aggression, resentment, and strengthening sibling relationships.
Anxiety and Mental Health

Support when anxiety, depression, OCD, or emotional distress in one member affects the whole family system.
Cultural & Intergenerational Differences

Support for immigrant families, bicultural homes, differing values, and intergenerational misunderstandings.
Caregiver Burnout

Support for parents or caregivers carrying emotional, financial, or practical strain.
Life Transitions

Moving, new babies, launches to adulthood, retirement, illness, caregiving, or other major family changes.
Substance Use & Recovery

Healing family patterns impacted by addiction, enabling, relapse, and rebuilding trust.
Anger & Emotional Regulation

Support when reactivity, conflict, or difficulty managing emotions affects home life.

OUR APPROACH

At Clinique Altera, we understand that families are complex systems shaped by love, stress, history, culture, and change.

When one person is struggling, the impact is often felt throughout the whole family. Our approach is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed, helping families move away from blame and toward deeper understanding.

We draw from evidence-based models such as Family Systems Therapy, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), attachment-based approaches, and practical communication strategies tailored to your family’s needs.

We focus on:

Strengthening communication with empathy and clarity
Reducing conflict and recurring reactive patterns
Supporting parents and caregivers with boundaries and co-regulation
Helping children, teens, and adults feel heard and understood
Repairing trust after stress, rupture, or disconnection
Building healthier roles, routines, and family dynamics

Our goal is to help families create a safer, more connected environment where each person has space to grow.

Other offerings:

In addition to family therapy, Clinic Altera offers complementary services that can support children, teens, parents, and caregivers in more individualized or developmentally tailored ways.

Parent Coaching
Practical and compassionate support for parenting stress, behaviour challenges, co-parenting dynamics, boundaries, emotional regulation, and strengthening connection at home.

Creative Arts & Play-Based Therapy
For children and teens who may express themselves more easily through play, art, storytelling, or creative exploration. We offer developmentally sensitive, non-directive approaches that help young people process emotions, build confidence, and feel understood.

ADHD Coaching
Support for children, teens, adults, and families navigating executive functioning challenges, motivation, routines, school stress, emotional regulation, and systems that work with neurodivergent brains.

These services can be accessed on their own or alongside family therapy depending on your family’s needs and goals.

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